This pub is a possible candidate for inclusion on CAMRA’s Local Inventory of pubs with local historic interest. The main feature of interest here is the splendid façade with its elaborate pediment over the entrance depicting the heraldry of the Royal Standard. The pub is locally listed and is in the Wandle Valley Conservation Area and the Conservation Area description is as follows: “This early 19th Century public house is a two-storey building, with a double-pitched “London roof” with a central valley gutter set behind a brick parapet. The building is a continuation of the neighbouring building at 182 High Street forming a short terrace. The building retains its original style upper floor windows comprising double hung sliding sash windows, with the sashes divided into small panes with narrow glazing bars however the ground floor elevation has been altered, probably on conjunction with a pub refurbishment and has non-original casement windows. Built of brick the building has been rendered and painted obscuring details of the window arches. The front elevation does, however, retain its projecting string course detail to the base of the parapet. On the right hand (north east) side there is a single-storey wing with a lean-to hipped roof. The front façade of this wing has an ornate “Royal Standard” moulded crest set into a prominent curved gable feature at first floor level. A rare survival of the original fabric of Colliers Wood High Street that retains id original Georgian styling in spite of the alterations to the ground floor elevation, this building is of both architectural and historic significance to this part of the conservation area.”

CAMRA website link: CAMRA/Royal Standard

The Royal Standard featured on the Midsummer Merton: Daytime Pub Tour of Possible Local Inventory Pubs in Tooting and Merton on 20 June 2026.